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ArticleScience advances2024

Light-activated CRISPR-Cas12a for amplified imaging of microRNA in cell cycle phases at single-cell levels.

Hong Liu, Jiantong Dong, Zhijuan Duan, Fan Xia, Itamar Willner, Fujian Huang

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Article in Science advances, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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6 authors.

Hong LiuState Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, Engineering Research Center of Nano-Geomaterials of Ministry of Education, Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, P.R. China.ORCID 0009-0005-0331-6523
Jiantong DongInstitute of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-7063-711X
Zhijuan DuanState Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, Engineering Research Center of Nano-Geomaterials of Ministry of Education, Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, P.R. China.ORCID 0000-0002-1805-8142
Fan XiaState Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, Engineering Research Center of Nano-Geomaterials of Ministry of Education, Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, P.R. China.ORCID 0000-0001-7705-4638
Itamar WillnerInstitute of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-9710-9077
Fujian HuangState Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, Engineering Research Center of Nano-Geomaterials of Ministry of Education, Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, P.R. China.ORCID 0000-0002-7777-1589

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An ortho-nitrobenzyl phosphate ester-caged nucleic acid hairpin structure coupled to the CRISPR-Cas12a complex is introduced as a functional reaction module for the light-induced activation of the CRISPR-Cas12a (LAC12a) machinery toward the amplified fluorescence detection of microRNA-21 (miRNA-21). The LAC12a machinery is applied for the selective, in vitro sensing of miRNA-21 and for the intracellular imaging of miRNA-21 in different cell lines. The LAC12a system is used to image miRNA-21 in different cell cycle phases of MCF-7 cells. Moreover, the LAC12a machinery integrated in cells enables the two-photon laser confocal microscopy-assisted, light-stimulated spatiotemporal, selective activation of the CRISPR-Cas12a miRNA-21 imaging machinery at the single-cell level and the evaluation of relative expression levels of miRNA-21 at distinct cell cycle phases. The method is implemented to map the distribution of cell cycle phases in an array of single cells.

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Cell CycleCRISPR-Cas SystemsMicroRNAsSingle-Cell AnalysisHumansLightMCF-7 CellsMicroscopy, ConfocalMicroRNAsMIRN21 microRNA, human

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PMID39047109
PMCPMC11268419

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